Best book on the Apollo project up to Apollo 11: Apollo Race to the Moon by Charles Murray (yeah, THAT Charles Murray). Get the Audible, it's worth the listen.

Best Movie: APOLLO 11 - Best movie I've ever seen on an Imax. Uses cleaned up original footage from news and NASA. Incredible.

"Astronauts" for rockets today are like "pilots" today: mostly systems managers and going the way of the dodo. "Stop!". "Go!". "Expand your team!". "Hey, I "flew" for almost 5 minutes on my 9 hour flight!".

These men were incredible. (So were their Soviet counterparts - Soviet Space Race. Ho. Lee. Cripe. Also women, in their case. Soviet astronaughts tradiotionally ****ed on their rockets before liftoff. LOL.)